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title: De nex time eh see de Ole Man duh comin long de road wid eh waggin a… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De nex time eh see de Ole Man duh comin long de road wid eh waggin an fish, eh leddown dist on de adge er de road, an eh pant same luk eh bin gwine fuh dead. Who acts: De time eh, pant. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 3

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De nex time eh see de Ole Man duh comin long de road wid eh waggin an fish, eh leddown dist on de adge er de road, an eh pant same luk eh bin gwine fuh dead.

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**Who acts:** De time eh, pant · **What happens:** see, gwine · **To what, where:** long de road

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This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De time eh, pant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76586:10:3
# text = De nex time eh see de Ole Man duh comin long de road wid eh waggin an fish, eh leddown dist on de adge er de road, an eh pant same luk eh bin gwine fuh dead.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	nex	nex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	de	de	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
10	comin	comin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	compound	_	_
13	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
14	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	eh	eh	X	FW	_	16	compound	_	_
16	waggin	waggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	_
21	leddown	leddown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	dist	dist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	compound	_	_
25	adge	adge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	er	er	X	FW	_	28	compound	_	_
27	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	flat:foreign	_	_
28	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
31	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
32	pant	pant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
33	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
34	luk	luk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
36	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
38	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	39	discourse	_	_
39	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | De time eh | long de road and wid eh waggin  a fish and leddown dist on de adge and er road and a eh same eh bin gwine |  |  |  | de Ole Man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer road=Stimulus |
| 2 | **gwine** |  | pant |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Project Gutenberg book 76586 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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